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Habs Going For Number 25

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05/12/10 at 11:57 PM ET | Comments (3)

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A New Stanley Cup Champion Will Be Crowned This Season - Montreal Defeats Pittsburgh

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05/12/10 at 11:40 PM ET | Comments (32)

Montreal moves on to face the winner of the Boston/Philadelphia series while Pittsburgh packs up their gear.

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Not So Fast Glendale City Council, You Are Breaking The Law

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05/12/10 at 10:22 PM ET | Comments (10)

from David Shoalts of the Globe and Mail,

While it will wait until the minutes from the Glendale, Ariz., council meeting are available before proceeding officially, the Goldwater Institute plans to intercept the city’s plans to hand over as much as $25-million (all currency U.S.) to the NHL.

Carrie Ann Sitren, a lawyer for the conservative watchdog group which monitors public spending, said Wednesday that it is illegal for a city to hand over complete authority to a city manager, as Glendale did, to cut a deal without public discussion or a final vote of approval from council. On Tuesday night, Glendale council voted 7-0 to give city manager Ed Beasley the authority to forge and agreement with the NHL to pay up to $25-million of the Phoenix Coyotes’ operating losses for the 2010-11 season if the league is unable to sell the team.

“By delegating the power and responsibility of [council] to the city manager, the city has violated the law,” Sitren said.

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Open Post- Habs vs. Pens

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05/12/10 at 08:35 PM ET | Comments (145)

Game starts just after 7:00pm EDT on Versus, CBC and RDS.

I say Penguins win in a blowout or Canadiens win in regulation in a low scoring game.

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Business Side Of The NHL Grows During The Playoffs

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05/12/10 at 06:55 PM ET | Comments (1)

NEW YORK (May 12, 2010) – “As far as perspiration-based entertainment goes, it’s pretty hard to top what the National Hockey League has offered up this spring,” says the Toronto Star. And Milton Kent of AOL Fanhouse adds, “the National Hockey League is a big-time deal again… people are definitely talking about, and more importantly, watching, the NHL again.”

  As the Eastern Conference Semifinals near their conclusion with Game 6 and Game 7 tonight, the compelling action on the ice is helping to fuel substantial business success off the ice. All North American TV partners are showing strong increases in viewership, the NHL’s digital platforms are experiencing explosive growth, and attendance is averaging above capacity.

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Setting The Stage For Game 7

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05/12/10 at 04:57 PM ET | Comments (0)

from Sean Gordon of the Globe and Mail,

So here we are back in Steeltown, dear friends, a badly underestimated destination and home of the most charmingly decrepit arena in the NHL.

We love all things rustic, don’t get us wrong – and there are some wonderful touches to this old barn, like the “Flood like a champion tonight” signs next to the Zambonis – but this place takes things to a new level….

Herewith, a few observations from practice: when the Pens came out for their morning skate (they were up first at 10:30), they found an extra veteran on the ice.

It was Vladimir Malkin, a shorter, balder version of his superstar son Evgeni, who was shimmying around in his leather jacket a pair of pointy black street shoes and whipping passes back and forth with Maxime Talbot.

The elder Malkin, who once played for Russian team Magnitogorsk, hammed it up with the players as they came out, firing shots at the net from bad angles.

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Canadians Love Their Hockey

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05/12/10 at 03:54 PM ET | Comments (1)

from Richard Southern of 680News,

Canadians are more in love with hockey than ever.

A new survey by MasterCard found 83 per cent of Canadians watch hockey every week.

Many spend more than four hours glued to their television sets.

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Afternoon Line

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05/12/10 at 03:14 PM ET | Comments (0)

“It hasn’t been an easy season by any stretch with all that has transpired with the ups and downs and things we’ve had to face with injuries and such.  But we certainly found a way to find wins, find ways to make up for key injuries and guys have stepped in and played very well. From the start of the year with our goaltending situation, with one guy going down, the next guy going in, the next guy going down and on and on. It was a bit of a carousel but, through all that, we learned an awful lot about ourselves and what it was going to take to be successful.”

-Chris Pronger of the Philadelphia Flyers via Mike G. Morreale of NHL.com.

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Talking Montreal/Pittsburgh

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05/12/10 at 03:01 PM ET | Comments (0)

Scott Burnside of ESPN checks-in from Pittsburgh and discusses game 7.

Also, read about it here.

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Game 7 KK Poll

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05/12/10 at 02:22 PM ET | Comments (12)

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